Mice with altered KCNQ4 K+ channels implicate sensory outer hair cells in human progressive deafness

Prestin is the motor protein of cochlear outer hair cells

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Molecular Physiology, Motor Protein, Molecular Biology +6

KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 Potassium Channel Subunits: Molecular Correlates of the M-Channel

H. Wang · 1998 · 1.3K citations

Synaptic Transmission, Molecular Biology, Neurotransmission +17

Prestin is required for electromotility of the outer hair cell and for the cochlear amplifier

M. Charles Liberman, Jiangang Gao, David Z. Z. He et al. · Nature · 2002 · 925 citations

Physiology, Outer Hair Cell, Electrophysiology +5

A novel mutation in the potassium channel gene KVLQT1 causes the Jervell and Lange-Nielsen cardioauditory syndrome

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Novel Mutation, Channelopathies, Cardiomyopathy +10

KCNQ4, a Novel Potassium Channel Expressed in Sensory Outer Hair Cells, Is Mutated in Dominant Deafness

Christian Kubisch, Björn C. Schroeder, Thomas Friedrich et al. · Cell · 1999 · 862 citations · Full text